Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion

3:00 pm

Photo of Maureen O'SullivanMaureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is good to see the witnesses back before the committee. We are talking about organ harvesting, but that is only one of the human rights abuses suffered by Falun Gong practitioners. One of the newspapers referred to the Confucius Institute, suggesting that there is a need to check whether the Confucius Institute for Ireland in UCD has a hiring policy that discriminates against practitioners of Falun Gong in the same way as the institute in the university in America had. I do not know if it has that policy, but it is worth checking. If it does, we can take a further step.

How does one know if someone comes back with a new transplant? I agree with the principle behind it but I am working wondering about the practicalities. There have been significant visits between Ireland and China, including one by the Minister for Health. It would be good to know if there was any discussion on this point when he visited China.

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